Child&#39;s swing.



J. A. EBERLE.

CHILDS SWING.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 2. I917.

' law a9? J OHN A. EIBERLE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CHILDS SWING;

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Specification of Letters latent.

Patented nee. 17, iota.

Application filed April 2, 1917. Serial No. 159,119.

To all whom 2'2. may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. EBERLE, a citizen of the United States of America, a resident of the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain. new and useful Improvements in Childrens'Swings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a childs swing intended more particularly for the use of infants, the invention having for its object the production of an inexpensive -swing which may be readily suspended at any desired location, and which when not in use may be folded compactly so as to occupy a very small' amount of space. One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a swing comprising a pocket seat in which the child may be placed, and which has associatedtherewith a flexible back which adds greatly to the comfort of the child in the swing.

Figure I is a front elevation of my swing.

Fig. II is a side elevation of the pocket seat of the swing and. the lower portions of the suspending straps.

Fig. III is a rear elevation.-

Fig. IV is a perspective view on a reduced scale of the frame of the pocket seat- Fig. V is an enlarged side view of one of the hinge joints between the side frame and back frame members of the pocket seat.

Fig. VI is a front "iew of the hinge joint shown in Fig. V

In the drawings A designates the pocket of the seat of my swing, preferably comprising four walls and a bottom made of canvas or fabric of any other suitable description, one of the walls having therein a pair of openings a through which the legs of a child occupyingthe swing may extend. The rear wall of the pocket A extends beyond the upper edges of the other walls of the pocket to provide a back section B.

l designates a U-shaped frameto which the upper margins of the walls of the pocket. A, aside from the back wall, are secured. preferably by folding the material of these walls over the frame and stitching the fold. In the construction shown the rear wall of the pocket A is not connected to the frame 1. A U-shaped frame 2 is pivoted to the frame 1 (see particularly Figs. III to V1, inclusive), and the back B of the pocket A is secured to said back frame in any suitable manner, for example, by folding the material of the back of the pocket over the back frame and stitching it, The rearwardiy extending arms of the frame 1 are provided at their rear ends with eyes 3, the arms of the back frame 2 are provided with eyes 4,-

and pivot pins 5 extend through said eyes tojoln the frames'to each other in such manner as to permit of their being folded and unfolded in order that the swing may be collapsed when out of use, or put in condition for service.

6 designates suspension straps secured to the frame 1 at the front corners of the seat of the swing, and 7 are suspension straps secured to the upper corners of the back frame 2. The application of these straps to the frames 1 and 2 is permitted by slightly exposing the frames through the. material of the pocket A and the back B, as seen in the.

drawings. The several straps ti and Tall lead upwardly to a'hanger 8, which may be of ring form or any other form conveniently applicable to a support to which the hanger is to be applied.

A spreader 9 receives the attachment of the suspension straps between their lower and upper ends and serves to hold these straps separated so that the seat of the swing is properly and substantially supported ther by.

It will be appreciated that the herein de-. scribed swing isso constructed as to avoid any possibility of injury to a child occupying it, that there is no liability of the child escaping from the swing, and urthermore that the child may occupy the swing with the greatest comfort, a feature of importance in the matter of comfort being the absence of any frame member in the back wall of the swing pocket against which theback of the child rests.

I claim: 7

1. A childs swing comprising a flexible pocket having a back extension, a main U- shaped frame to which the main portion. of said pocket is secured, a U-shaped back frame to which the back extension of said pocket is secured,'said back frame being hinged to the arms of said main frame, and suspension means secured to the front corners of said main frame and the upper corners 0f saidbackfr zime.

2. A childs swing comprising; a flexible pocket, a main U-shaped frame te which the main portion of said pocket is secured, a ii -shaped back frame t0 which the back extension 03: said pecket is secured, the arms 65 said frames being provided with matingeyes, pivot pins connecting the eyes of the frames, and suspension means attached to said frames En testimony that I claim the foregoing I hereunto afiix my signat lre.

JOHN A. EBERLE. 

